because we want to look better

we have made jewelry for thousands of years

applied makeup for centuries

we have worn extensions and falsies and shoulder pads and fingernail polish and shoe lifts and merkins and furs and antiperspirant and curlers and tuxes

who remembers liberace? friends called him lee, which name has been borne by everyone from lee marvin to princess lee radziwell

norma jean baker became marilyn monroe and marion morrison john wayne

wayne newton had so much work done it looked like his face was being erased

isaac newton didn’t get einsteined for hundreds of years

isaac stern and yitzhak perlman and isaac asimov all really have the same first name

and now we get avatar makeovers and ai ass-kissers telling us how fiercely honest we are

and our enhancements are less of our own will and more of an imposition

so please, friends, FIGHT for your trueness

for your gloriously unenhanced selves

where your true beauty resides